An amazing and honest account of the career of a world renowned neurosurgeon

Really lovely stories of American medicine

Fascinating insight into the pathologies associated with neurological diseases.

Outstanding and completely devastating

Really good read and insight into the realities of being a modern junior doctor

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved as much as to be understood”

“You think ‘Okay, I get it, I'm prepared for the worst‘, but you hold out that small hope, see, and that's what fucks you up. That's what kills you.”

“...Adventures, once they were over, were things that had to stay inside one--that no one else could quite understand.”

“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

“Because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.”